by mbc1955 » Tue 11 Nov, 2014 9:40 pm
Hi. I know this is the longest of longshots but if I don't ask, etc, etc,
A long time ago, in a decade faraway which we called the Sixties, there was a magical hit single called "Something in the Air" by Thunderclap Newman, of which many of you will be hopefully familiar. Said song was written and sung (and drummed) by John 'Speedy' Keen.
A few years later, in 1972, Speedy released the first of only two solo albums, 'Previous Convictions'. It was preceded by a single, "Old-Fashioned Girl", which also turned up on the album as opening track. I first bought the single, then the album. There was a marked difference between the two in that the single was a straight rock song, guitars (acoustic and electric), bass, drums, piano) but the album version had some weak and feeble strings and horns dubbed over it.
Like a fool, on the grounds of duplication, I sold on the single. Since then, still preferring the stripped down version, I've tried buying old copies of the single to get back my preferred track. Unfortunately, I must have got an early pressing of the single when it first came out as all the subsequent versions I've discovered are either identical to the album or, in one case, were blessedly free of overdubs at the beginning but afflicted by them later in the track.
You know what's coming: is there by some remotest chance someone out there who was similarly into Speedy's solo stuff, who bought the non-overdubbed version of the single, still has it and who has digitised it? If so, or if you know someone who might, I'd love to talk about getting a copy of it.
Please? Pretty please? Pretty please wiv' sugar on it?
Hi. I know this is the longest of longshots but if I don't ask, etc, etc,
A long time ago, in a decade faraway which we called the Sixties, there was a magical hit single called "Something in the Air" by Thunderclap Newman, of which many of you will be hopefully familiar. Said song was written and sung (and drummed) by John 'Speedy' Keen.
A few years later, in 1972, Speedy released the first of only two solo albums, 'Previous Convictions'. It was preceded by a single, "Old-Fashioned Girl", which also turned up on the album as opening track. I first bought the single, then the album. There was a marked difference between the two in that the single was a straight rock song, guitars (acoustic and electric), bass, drums, piano) but the album version had some weak and feeble strings and horns dubbed over it.
Like a fool, on the grounds of duplication, I sold on the single. Since then, still preferring the stripped down version, I've tried buying old copies of the single to get back my preferred track. Unfortunately, I must have got an early pressing of the single when it first came out as all the subsequent versions I've discovered are either identical to the album or, in one case, were blessedly free of overdubs at the beginning but afflicted by them later in the track.
You know what's coming: is there by some remotest chance someone out there who was similarly into Speedy's solo stuff, who bought the non-overdubbed version of the single, still has it and who has digitised it? If so, or if you know someone who might, I'd love to talk about getting a copy of it.
Please? Pretty please? Pretty please wiv' sugar on it?